Samaavartana Sanskaara

समिधादान – Samidhaadaan

Three sandalwood sticks are offered to the fire with these four mantras:

With this mantra, place the first samidha into the fire:

ओम् अयंत् इध्म आत्मा जातवेदस्तेनेध्यस्व वर्धस्व चेद्ध वर्धय
चास्मान् प्रजया पशुभिर्ब्रह्मवर्चसेनान्नाद्येन समेधय स्वाहा॥ 
इदमग्नये जातवेदसे इदन्न मम

Om ayant idhma aatmaa
jaata-vedas-tene-dhyasva
vardha-sva ched-dha vardhaya chaas-maan
prajayaa-pashubhir-brahma-varchase-na-annaa-dyena
samedhaya svaahaa.1
Idam-agnaye jaata-vedase, idanna mama.

After the next two mantras, place the second samidha into the fire:
ओं समिधाग्निं दुवस्यत घृतैर्बोधयतातिथिम्
आस्मिन् हव्य जुहोतन स्वाहा
इदमग्नये इदन्न मम

Om sami-dhaa-agnim duvas-yata
ghṛi-tair-bodhayataa-tithim
aasmin havyaa juhotana svaahaa.2
Idam-agnaye, idanna mama.

सुसमिद्धाय शोचिषे घृतं तीव्रं जुहोतन
अग्नये जातवेदसे स्वाहा
इदमग्नये जातवेदसे इदन्न मम

Su-samid-dhaaya sho-chiṣhe
gṛitam teevram juhotana.
Agnaye jaata-vedase svaahaa.3
Idam-agnaye jaata-vedase, idanna mama.

With this mantra, place the third samidha into the fire:
तन्त्वा समिद्भिरङ्गिरो घृतेन वर्द्धयामसि
बृहच्छोचा यविष्ठ्य स्वाहा
इदमग्नयेऽङ्गिरसे इदन्न मम

Tantvaa samid-bhir-aṅgiro
ghṛitena vardhayaa-masi.
Bṛihachho-chaa yaviṣh-ṭhaya svaahaa.4
Idam-agnaye-aṅgirase, idanna mama.

जलसिञ्चनम् – Jala-sinchanam

Sprinkling water in different directions5

In the Eastern direction6:
ओम् अदितेऽनुमन्यसव

Om adite-anumanya-sva.7

In the Western direction8:
ओम् अनुमतेऽनुमन्यस्व

Om anumate-anumanya-sva.9

In the Northern direction10:
ओं सरस्वत्यनुमन्यस्व

Om sarasvaty-anumanya-sva.11

Around, in all directions12:
ओं देव सवितः प्रसुव यज्ञं प्रसुव यज्ञपतिं भगाय
दिव्यो गन्धर्वः केतपूः केतं नः पुनातु वाचस्पतिर्वाचं नः स्वदतु

Om deva savitah prasuva yajyam
prasuva yajya-patim bhagaaya.
Divyo gandharvah keta-pooh
ketan nah punaatu
vaachas-patir-vaachan nah svadatu.13

  1. Ashvalayana Grihyasutra 1.10.12
  2. Yajur Veda 3.1
  3. Yajur Veda 3.1
  4. Yajur Veda 3.3
  5. Water is sprinkled in different directions, outside of the Kunda. The significance of water in Agnihotra is manifold: 1) Washing/cleaning – may the mind be washed clean of any negative; 2) Water represents cooling (opposing) force to fire – where there is fire there should be water; 3) Where the fires of passions arise there should be the cooling temperament of good senses; (4) Water flows from the ultimate source of Godhead (a reference to Ganga flowing from the head of Shiva); (5) Water also represent the force of God – e.g., the great flood of Manu. (6) Water is an alien force to earth that provided the catalyst to life.
  6. Start at the Southern edge and end at the Northern edge of the kunda.
  7. Gobhil Grihyasurta 1.3.1
  8. Start at the Southern edge and end at the Northern edge of the kunda.
  9. Gobhil Grihyasurta 1.3.2
  10. Start at the Western edge and end at the Eastern edge of the kunda.
  11. Gobhil Grihyasurta 1.3.3
  12. Start at mid-eastern-point, go clockwise and end at same point.
  13. Yajur Veda 30.1

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